police headquarters in virginia park. >> pat, police chief roberto hilton held a news conference the second day in a row. this time attended but not only local media but national media because the video has gone viral. it has gone international. the chief says the department is moving swiftly to try to get to the bottom of the very embarrassing incident. a beating of a student by prince george's county police is the talk of college park. it happened march 3rd and the students rushed the streets in celebration. students were shocked by the provoke caught on videotape by a university student. >> the nature i was down here, it -- people were trying to walk back to where they lived. and the -- the police were, you know, weren't letting them do that. people were walking around with their hands up like this. they were still getting beaten up. >> all the streets were blocked

off and a huge crowd and -- like police blocking off their roads and their -- horses and when -- it was unlike anything i have ever seen. >> reporter: the incident outraged prince george's county officials that initially defended the officers' conduct. one officer has been suspended. two others are under investigation. surrounded by his senior staff, chief hilton says he is moving quickly to get to the bottom of the attack. >> this is an isolated incident. we have 2,000 employees at the police department. these were just two or three employees and, again, against the entire department it would inappropriate at this time. >> reporter: the investigation will focus on whether the officers gave a false statement. so far only one of the three officers has been identified. reporting live in palmer park, jane watrel. back to you, pat. >> thanks, jane. developing story tonight at district court. a man accused of killing an 18ier old woman allegedly over a hamburger was found not guilty in court this afternoon.

terrence jones is accused of shooting 18-year-old stanton. the key witness in the case was a 9-year-old boy who said he saw the whole thing. so what happened? pat collins joins us now from northwest with more on this breaking news today. pat? >> reporter: jim, not guilty of first-degree murder. not guilty of second-degree murder. not guilty of aggravated assault. terrence jones, not guilty on all counts in the hamburger murder case. after about a day of deliberation, the jury in the so-called hamburger murder case came up with a verdict of not guilty across the board. can you tell us why you found him not guilty? elizabeth mullen was the defense attorney in the case. tell me your reaction to the verdict. >> i'm afraid we are not allowed. i have no comment.

we are pleased with the verdict. >> reporter: stanton, killed after a man fired shots to the front door of her home in northeast. the prosecutors said the man was angry because her mother would not make him a hamburger. the government's key witness, 9 year old boy, who said he knew the shooter, saw him pull the gun and fired the shot. the defense argued the boy was mistaken and that the police arrested the wrong man. after the verdict, members of stan top's family left the courthouse in tears. yvonne stanton is tanjanika's sister. >> i'm probably in shock right now. really just in shock. just in shock. can't believe it. >> reporter: not guilty, not guilty, not guilty. >> yeah. when i was in there listening, i was just -- i'm not hearing what

i'm hearing. not hearing what i'm hearing. that's the verdict. >> reporter: what do you do now? >> well, other than to prau and be in praur, really nothing. nothing that i can do to see that justice is done. it is not up to me. it is up to god to see that justice is done. >> reporter: terrence jones is 20 years old. he's been in jail 20 months since the case worked its way through the court. tonight terrence jones is a free man. jim, back to you. >> all right, pat collins. thank you, pat. police in alexandria are investigating after a woman walking home from the metro was sexually assaulted. it happened in the 1600 block of duke street just after midnight. the police say the woman had just gotten off the metro at king street when she was -- by a man that had a box cutter and forced into an alley on duke street and sexually assaulted

there. and investigators are asking anyone who may have been in the area to call them. coming up in our next half hour, we will have a full report to explain why this was considered an unusual attack. a d.c. community is in mourning today. mourning over it is loss of a journalist. talented artist. cou constance holden. the accident is now under investigation. news4's tom sherwood joins us live from northwest with more on the life of constance holden. tom? >> reporter: heavy police presence and military force presence here around the convention center. it has been marred by this terrible bike incident. a police officer delivered flowers to the home of constance holden. the mt. pleasant woman who worked as a journalist for 40 years for the american association for the advancement of science in downtown

washington. >> we are deeply shocked and saddened. we send our sincere condolences to john and the rest of her family and friends. it has been a terrible, sad day. she was very accomplished and well-regarded. she is going to be horribly missed. >> worked for this association since 1907. >> 40 years. >> reporter: holden, 68, was struck and killed monday afternoon by a d.c. national guard's five-ton truck as she was routinely riding her bicycle home from her office at 12th and new york avenues. >> it was not at all uncommon to see her with her bicycle. i talked to her a few times about riding her bike. we compared notes on our distances. >> reporter: d.c. police continued to investigate the collision which occurred during the buildup of police and military force during the nuclear summit that ends today. no charges are being placed against the national guard truck driver. holden afegs atly noens as tancy, was a professional

painter. she lived in mt. pleszant on kenyon street. her husband, daughter and frien friends, declined to speak to reporters. bicyclist groups are urging all bicyclists and drivers to look out for each other. pat, back to you. >> tom sherwood. thank you, top. day two of the summit didn't seem to have a huge impact on traffic. there are road closures until 8:00 tonight which means bus routes are still detoured. it will take a while for many roads to get back to normal with all of the dignitaries and motorcades heading out of town. mt. vernon metro station will not reopen until tomorrow morning at 5:00. at the end of the nuclear security summit tonight, members will issue a final document. the 47 countries in attendance will agree all nations are responsible for safeguarding nuclear materials. and keeping them out of the hands of terrorists. the communique also direct it is global community to work more

closely with the u.n. and its nuclear watchdog arm, international atomic energy agency. the summit was called by president obama to focus world attention on the dangers posed by the prospect of terrorists obtaining nuclear materials. stay with news4 for coming coverage of the nuclear security summit. we will have a full report on today's developments on "news4 at 6:00" tonight and later on "nightly news with brian williams." a spring storm brought rain to the washington area. most of our region is now getting widespread showers. low, dark clouds continue to hang overhead. how long will the rain be falling around us? veronica? >> not too much longer, pat. not too much longer at all. but hard to believe that last tuesday we had our first 90-degree day and were 40 degrees higher. temperatures across the area. some nice warmth today. feels like a page pulled out of february.

we have been ruined 50. it felt much chillier than that with the rain and with a little bit of the east-northeaster lip wind. 50 degrees cooler than average today. yet, there are those showers that you spoke of around hagerstown. moderate showers and these are -- will be moving into the district soon. we have some in anne arundel county, calvert, and charles county as well as st. mary's county. 48, the temperature in manassas. 49 in fairfax. 48 in baltimore. throughout the area, anywhere between about 48 and 50 degrees. by tomorrow morning, we are going to have a pretty cool start around here. we are going to be dry across the area by tomorrow morning. so on your fast forecast the showers, those will be leaving soon. about 8:00, 9:00 p.m. seasonal sunshine back tomorrow. then i will tell you how warm the rest of the workweek is looking. and even peek at the weekend. >> all right, veronica, thank you. a minor earthquake rattled southwest virginia early this morning. it happened just after midnight about 50 miles from the west virginia and north carolina

borders. officials say it had a magnitude of 2.5. there were no reports of any damage. first lady michelle obama left washington today on her first solo trip abroad. and the trip began with a surprise visit on the way to mexico. the first lady stopped in haiti. she spent the day getting a firsthand look at the devastation caused by the earthquake january 12th. haitian officials say an estimated 230,000 people were killed in the quake. hundreds of thousands of people are still homeless in haiti. the first lady is traveling with vice president joe biden's wife, jill. they are expected to arrive in mexico city later tonight. when we come right back on "news4 at 5:00" tonight, it is the story that a lot of people are talking about today and the video is tough to believe. 3 year old child walks a tightrope over siberian tigers. stick around to see it and hear about it. >> that's a scary, scary story. new warning for drivers. we will tell why you it may cost

you more if you get caught breaking the rules of the road. >> reporter: this cute little yorkie was missing for over five months. i'm john schriffen. coming up, how the story of technology helped reunite the dog with his family.

there was a special thrill yesterday for some students in japan. two japanese astronauts aboard the international space station gave a musical performance for the students using a traditional japanese harp and the astronaut who played the harp graduated from the same school the students now attend. that music was certainly out of this world. astronauts from the shuttle "discovery" performed their third and final space walk today outside of the space station. they had to remove an old ammonia tank. in the process they ran into trouble with a stuck bowl. eventually they managed to remove the bolt and store the tank aboard the shuttle. discovery is scheduled to return the other on sunday. nasa says there will only three more shuttle missions after this one. as part of earth day dominion power is doing its part to help folks in the area green their routine. volunteers from dominion power turned out this morning in falls church.

they built 300 water barrels that they will sell at discount prices to northern virginia the president of dominion power says using a rain barrel helps minimize the yard and basement flooding. is the economy really rebounding? today the dow finished above 11,000. that's the highest close since september 26th. but is it too early to be optimistic? the dow topped 11,000 today and cnbc's mike huckman joins us live. mike, what's the latest on the market this afternoon? what's behind it? >> good evening, jim. what's behind it is the economic turnaround as well as the start of another earnings season. yes, the markets closed higher despite the first component of the dow jones industrial average to report quarterly earnings number this season, disappointing results. dow finished for the second day in a row above that psychological benchmark of

11,000. it is at the highest level. it has been in about a year and a half. nasdaq, s&p 500, also rose fractionally today. so the dow component that looked like it was going to possibly put a damper on things without coal a aluminum company did not make as much money as investors had hoped it would and the sales came up short for the first time in three years. but after the closing bell today, intel, the company that makes the stuff to help your computer run, blew away whooil wall street estimates and that stock is climbing in after hours trading and that's important because it bodes well, jim, at least for tech stocks tomorrow. but we are also going to get earnings tomorrow morning before the opening bell from banking giant jpmorgan and chase as well. that could move the market as well. we have relief today. also cooled off a lot. >> it did. last week at this time it was 90 degrees. now we are at 50.

40-degree plummet. >> exactly. hard to believe, right? spring. it will do that to you. mauck you wonder what to where the next day. right? that's w let's take a look at what's going on across the area. we stul have gray skies across the area. and weigh do st-- we still have showers falling across the area. 50 degrees. temperature at reagan national air poshgts dew point temperatures at 44 degrees. east-northeaster wind will. 13 miles per hour. we haven't gotten a strong fetch off the water. we are going to see skies clear during the overnight period. as they do, well, temperatures are going to plummet. north i think we will have to watch the northernmost counties of maryland. carroll county, washington county, frederick county, temperatures will be dropping to the upper 30s by morning. and a frost advisory for southern areas, eastern areas of pennsylvania. and around york, lancaster frost advise friday 2:00 a.m. wednesday until 8:00 a.m.

wednesday. here is a look at a line of rain moving through. we are not the only ones that have been wet. philadelphia, newark, too, trenton, now getting drier conditions in there. pittsburgh, too. cleveland was really wet this morning. diving south. not a huge area but -- there you can see the weather front and easterly fetch we had today with low pressure, ripple coming along the front. beltway closed in with rain showers, too. they were dry about an hour ago. wheaton, down to chapel acres, light showers. rosariville, too. you have moderate pocket of rain. golden beach. piney point. down towards stafford. and then another little area north that will be dropping in on us, too. that around frederick. not as big, though, martinsburg. rain up until 8:00 or 9:00 p.m. this evening. .09 inches of rain in arlington. 41 in thurmont.

feeling more like upper 30s. great falls at 47 degrees. .13 of an inch of rain today. we have a little weather system here. today is going to be the greatest to coolest and wettest day out of the workweek. all uphill after today. the next little system this one here out west, it has been producing mountain snow in montana. and even produced snow in reno, too. it is going to be heading to the east and it could produce some cloud cover, maybe a few showers, and around the weekend. but right now, we just have dry conditions posted for the weekend. there's the bubble of upper 70s and 80s. heat through the tennessee valley and gulf coast. tomorrow we will see temperatures seasonal for the year. we will push back into the low 60s tomorrow. and we will get sunshine, too. here is 8:00 a.m. tomorrow. the clouds moving through central areas of virginia. and continuing to push south with the drier air coming in. on thursday, we will see a few more clouds rotateding in. thursday will be a mostly sunny

to partly sunny type of day. 50s tomorrow. certainly will take that. it will be nays with the -- north and northeasterly wind. showers up until about 8:00 or 9:00 p.m. drop from the 50s to the upper 40s. northeaster lynn wind, again, through tomorrow morning, and through the afternoon tomorrow. chilly start. you will need maybe not only a jacket but a coat to get things started tomorrow. and then turning sunny, 58 to 64. so you may not be wanting to grab the vitamin d tomorrow. mid 07s, still sunshine, hangs around for thursday. friday, too. we could have isolated showers for the afternoon on friday. and sat dawe, the high of 66. that's what we get behind the system on friday. little bit after cooldown. nothing major. and right now partly sunny skies. highs on sunday in the low to mid 60s. jim, pat, back to you. >> all right. back to normal. thank you, veronica. >> coming up on "news4 at 5:00," we will show you a fiery rush hour commute.

i'm liz crenshaw. consumer reports issues a rare warning for drivers. toyota's latest troubles coming

charges are being considered today in the case of a tennessee

woman who sent her recently adopted russian son back to moscow. torre hanson put the 7-year-old child on a one-way flight back to russia last week. she attached a note saying that the orphanage she adopted him from failed to disclose psychological problems. an attorney is havinging child abandonment charges but may have to be filed in virginia. the loudoun county prosecutor says that alone does not give him jurisdiction to prosecute and does not plan to bring charges. a verdict in a multimillion dollar sex abuse lawsuit against the boy scouts of america. jurors in the oregon case have ordered the organization to pay a portland man $1.4 million because of repeated sexual abuse he suffered from a scout master back in the '80s. the jury decided the scouts are libel for punitive damages and

negative general for failing to take steps for preventing abuse after keeping a secret list of suspected ped fills for -- pedophiles. the nebraska's republican governor signed an abortion law that could have national implications. the measure bans abortions at 20 weeks based on the assertion that fetuses feel tame. a court challenge is expected. if the law in nebraska is upheld it could provide a legal foundation for abortion restrictions across the country. just ahead on "news4 at 5:00" this evening, a clumsy crook goes above and beyond to commit a crime. when hope was fading to find a missing girl lost in the woods, all of a sudden, she was found. we will tell you how came to the child's rescue. >> there is a new safety concern after a woman was attacked walking from the metro. good afternoon.

out of the district things are relatively quiet. dodged a bull threat. unfortunately we have big problems around the area. the weather, people don't drive well in it. a look out of springfield. solid in the main line. delays down through woodbridge and continuing off and on. all the way down towards quantico. but nothing too substantial. let's take a look at the beltway. that's a mess. inner loop of the capital beltway and the outer loop. going to be jammed leaving the tysons stretch, headed towards route 1. let's take a trip around the capital beltway. this is not improving capital georgetown road, george river road. you can see past connecticut avenue. just a nasty little afternoon out there. getting better by the time you hit college park.

welcome back at 5:30. i'm jim handly. >> i'm pat lawson muse. coming up in this half hour, technology helps lead to a happy homecoming. ryan zimmerman is having lunch with lindsay. dramatic fire heats up rush hour. we begin this half hour with our top story. a woman walking home from a metro stationed is forced into a nearby alley and sexually assaulted. tonight the police in alexandria are asking for help to catch the suspect in that assault.

it happened just after midnight in the 1600 block of duke street minutes after the woman got off of a train at the king street metro. julewe julie carey slooif with the story. >> reporter: it is on the up earned of old town. brick pathways and alleys there between the high-rises allowed the suspect to strike even in the very busy area. it seems like an unlikely place for an attack even late at night. busy duke street, old town alexandria. king street metro is just around the corner. whole foods market across the street. just after midnight, a 22-year-old walking home from the metro station, was grabbed and forced into an alley. >> she was approached by a man with a box cutter. he pulled her to the side into an alley way away from the street traffic and sexually salted her. >> reporter: alexandria police have not had reports of any similar attacks and want to find the man before he strikes again. at the king street metro this afternoon, women were troubled to hear about the attack. some confessed when they travel

after dark, they never feel completely secure. >> very disturbing. no matter where we go, we are not safe. it is always -- somebody out here looking to do harm to people. >> reporter: this alexandria woman who frequently uses the king street metro says that she never travels alone at night. >> i definitely would ride the metro by myself. something i never do. i like to run. so i -- i always run when it is -- light outside. just being alone in the dark, as a woman, not a good idea. >> reporter: alexandria police urge women to avoid wearing headphones and travel in pairs. hopeful because the attack took place in such a busy area, someone might come forward with helpful information. >> absolutely a very high-traffic area. that metro is a very busy area. and we have a lot of foot traffic. that same area during the day, you know, even at night, there is a lot of foot traffic. we are hoping if anybody was in the area or might have seen

someone that looks suspicious, who matches the description, you know, please give us a call to help us with this investigation. >> alexandria police are in the process of checking with other law enfoersment agencies to see if there were any similar attacks carried out by man with a box cutter. >> julie cary, thanks. more than a decade after the brutally murder of a prince george's county woman there is a sentence in the case. today a judge sentenced 32-year-old gary -- 25 years in prison. prosecutors say that he fled the landover area after he stabbed theodora cooper to death. she was 26 at the time and had two young sons. the detectives find the dna at the murder scene bunt didn't arrest him until last year after a his gill friend in miami saw him on "america's most wanted" and turned him in. a capital heights family has been looking for their missing dog since last november. now thanks to technology this

story has a happy ending. news4's john tlschriffen has mo. >> reporter: welcomed sound of donalli is back. the family agonized over the mysterious disappearance over their yorkshire territory. >> he was in the backyard and he was out, you know, his -- little afternoon walk and i -- gist think that maybe someone came into the backyard and maybe taken him. >> reporter: the family scoured their capitol heights neighborhood and checked with local shelters religiously. after months went by, no sign of donali. was there any point you gave up hope. >> yes. because there -- such a popular breed, i didn't think that it was going to happen. >> reporter: this past friday the family received a call saying their dog was found walking the streets of d.c. and it could be picked up at a local shelter. michael white is happy his fourth child is back home. >> donali is -- special in his

own way. you know, he's very playfully. he loves kids. and he never really had any problems with him. he's very attached to us. >> reporter: this magical reunion was made possible because of animal centers like this one. inside the spay and newter center, not only are animals taken care of but implanted with technology that essentially serves as a dog collar that can't get lost. before the animals with given to new homes they are implanned with a microchip no bigger than a nickel. a painful process that stores the animal's and owner's information on a registry. when the animal gets lost, all the doctor has to do is scan the chip to find the rightful owner. >> donali probably would have gone into our shelter system and would have looked for a new home for him. that's what happens. animals get permanently separated. the previous families don't ever really know what happened to them. it is heartbreaking. >> reporter: $35 families can have the peace of mind and when the lost pet might not be gone forever. i'm john schriffen, news4.

>> for more information on how you can get a microchip for your pet, go to our website. nbcwashington.com. search humane society. doing time for his crime may not be the worst thing for one oklahoma burglar. the worst thing might be strog admit he is the one on this surveillance video. a security camera videotaped the burglar inside of a drugstore in tulsa. he had gotten into the store by breaking through the roof. ouch. but that set off the alarm. he grabbed the ladder to make his escape. but his effort wasn't very smooth, as you see. in fact, he fell off the ladder seven -- seven times. he got away before police arrived. not exactly climbing the ladder of success. little red-faced. that's in black and white. >> persistent, was than he? >> yes. incompetent, too.

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volunteer found the little girl. she was covered from head to toe with bug bites and was dehydrated but officials say bluhm will be fine. her father made an emotional statement about her safe return. >> i thank god when you get home and just -- just give him the praise for this. thank him for the -- you know, things don't always turn out this way. we are so blessed. >> police say that when the 11-year-old was rescued she told officers that she couldn't believe that they found her but that she was glad that they did. wow. >> story with a happy ending. let's talk now about another happy story. the weather to come. >> the weather will be uphill after today. coolest day out of the work we. the other thing is the pollen will start climbing. city cameras as we pan across the area. washington monument, potomac, and -- drops on our camera lens.

we have had wet weather. bulk of it really after about lunch time today. temperatures have been cool today. pollen count hanging on at 990 grains per cubic meter. we have showers today. the return of sunshine tomorrow. i think we ring to see the pollen count once again climb high. showers right now inside of the beltway. even around prince george's county we have a pocket of some moderate showers coming down. ing see the dark green and the yellow. and currently from laurel to bowie and mitchellville. this is all pushing off towards the east. and southeast. with the line still up to the north, back edge of it, we will have showers ruined until 8:00 or 9:00 p.m. this evening. 50 degree, the temperature now the district. camp spring at 48. quantico, 50 degrees.

manassas at 48 degrees. boy, it is going to be a bit of a cool start to the day tomorrow. we will be starting out between -- 39 and about 45 degrees or so. skies will be partly sunny early on. sun is up at 6:33. your high tomorrow at 62 degrees with sunshine. then thursday, as i said, all uphill after today. mid 70s for thursday and friday. just a few passing showers for saturday. right now looks like our weekend should be dry. jim, pat? >> already. >> thanks, veronica. coming up, one couple learned that it pays to hide your identity. >> also ahead in sports, lindsay sits down for lunch with national staurl r national all-star ryan zimmerman. >> officials warn being a scam that offers you a check in the mail. mail. somewhere in america... there's a home by the sea powered by the wind on the plains. there's a hospital where technology has a healing touch.

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toyota continues to make headlines tonight. plus residents in maryland think they are getting a free check in the mail. >> and if you owe money to the irs, know your payment options. consumer roarer liz crenshaw is here with the details. >> we will begin with the warning out of maryland. the state comptroller tells us fraudulent checks that appear to be from the state have ended up in residents' mailboxes. this is what the check looks like. maryland officials say that the check is part of a secret shopper's scam. the check even includes the signatures of both the state's comptroller and treasurer but that if you deposit it, it will bounce and the account holder will be responsible for covering the check. along with the check comes a

scam letter from the fake company. the letter states you have been seleed to participate in a paid consumer research program as a mystery shopper. the will her also instructs the consumer to depossible the check and immediately wire a part of it to the scammers using western union. and anyone who receives a check like this or letter like this should call the attorney general's consumer froeks hotline or comptroller's off. attorney general's office is 410-528-8662. the state comptroller can be reached at 410-260-7801. more trouble for toyota today. today consumer reports magazine issues a rare warning discouraging drivers from buying a lexus suv. consumer reports tested the lexus gx and noted a safety risk. it says that the vehicle could potentially roll over. it states that the rear of the suv slipped out until the

vehicle was almost sideways during its emergency handling tests. consumer reports has notified toyota, lexus' parent company, the gx 460 has been on sale for three months. toyota says that it is concerned with the results and similar -- conducts similar tests. toyota says lit try to duplicate the test to determine if appropriate steps need to be taken. tax day just two days away. if you owe money you may it waiting until the last minute to file. if you don't have enough cash to pay back the government all at once, you can go on a payment plan. now the faster you pay the full amount you owe the less interest and penalties you are going to occur, of course. your options include using the online payment agreement that's at the irs' website or calling a number on the bill or notice to set up a plan. you can also request an offer in compromise. if you think you will never be able to pay off your debt to the

irs, it is accepted, the irs will reduce what you owe. and you have the option to pay with a credit card but be careful. paying with plastic could hurt your credit score if you use a chunk of your available credit and you do face additional fees. remember, it is april 15th and you do have to pay if you owe. even if you file an extension. >> all right. they are done. >> okay. >> i did not procrastinate this year. >> thanks, liz. an israeli couple wanted to hide their identities while claiming a $20,000 lottery prize. they will have to pay tax owes. they wore masks when they came forward today. the couple didn't turn in the winning ticket until three months after the drawing. the t two said they buy lottery tickets every. the husband said the winning ticket was stuck in a bottle with 18 other tickets. what do they plan do with their

winnings? looks like they may keep that a secret, too. additionol a trip, great trips -- >> you can't blame them. >> they will have a lot of new friends. >> old family members. folks you don't want to hear from. let's see what is in store for "news4 at 6:00" tonight. doreen is in the newsroom with a preview. >> coming up tonight at 6:00, metro has taken action against two employees after its most recent train derailment. details about that. president obama is reaching out to a select few before he makes his choice for the supreme court. and we will tell what you newly row leased documents reveal about the behavior of former congressman eric massa. that's stories and a more on "news4 at 6:00." i hope you will join me and jim vance then. dan is here tonight. what do you have for us. >> a little baseball with the hockey talk going on. easy to forget the nationals are in full effect. the nationals have the day of rest before continuing their series in philadelphia.

and perfect timing for ryan zimmerman. nats' best player is missed the last two games with a sore hammy. he hopes to be ready for tomorrow's game. zimmerman, of course, coming off the first all-star season. career year. he was plenty healthy for lunch with lindsay. >> what do you normally get here? >> chicken with asparagus and mashed potatoes. i think you should have the char. grilled octopus. >> part of your contract is host events for your foundation. right? multiple sclerosis and treatment and finding a cure.

your mom has that disease. what was it like for you growing up with that? how do you feel that change shaped you? >> when we first found out, me and my brother were -- i think i was 13 or 14. he was probably 11, i think. one of those diseases where it is not, you know, like immediate life or death. i think we kind of felt -- could have been a lot worse. wasn't cancer. wasn't something like that. where, you know, lot of people are a lot worse off than we were. and as it progressed and me and my brother had to do a lot more things, you know, 15, 13-year-olds did, i think -- we learned how to cook a little bit. do laundry. things like that. but -- my brother really can cook, actually. >> really? >> yeah. i'm all right. if i had to make dinner i can make dinner. it is -- you know, i think we had to grow up. >> thanks, mark. >> you are trying it first. you ordered it.

>> try the end of it. >> that's what i hate. >> in 2008, you -- talked about a new woman in your life. >> my dog. >> why did you name her miley? >> one of my buddies names all his dogs after pop culture people. that's a good idea. you can -- remember when you get her. you know. obviously you are going to -- after somebody dating at the time. you should name her miley. i don't know anything being -- >> miley cyrus, pop star. >> just -- >> yeah. >> then you got the cd. now you are a miley cyrus fan. >> i'm just guessing he probably really doesn't have the miley cyrus cd. however, i like the dog. first thing i think of when a pro athlete who is single has an english bulldog, who is taking care of white they are on the road? >> they are high maintenance. >> big time. >> cute, though. >> big time. yeah. >> just a puppy picture there. >> got to keep them

well-groomed. coming up next on "news4 at 5:00," we are going to show you a scary commute that had a fiery ending in maryland today. d.c. is considering charging drivers more for violating the rules of the road. just how much more. find out after the break.

a pretty scary scene for the driver of a pickup truck near gaithersburg. traveling northbound on i-270

near montgomery village when his ford ranger caught fire. the truck driver was able to get out without a scratch. no word yet on what caused the fire. authorities are trying to determine what issue the truck had at the time of the fire. a woodbridge man has been charged with reckless driving after the dump truck he was operating hit 12 different vehicles. this incident happened around 6:30 this morning on interstate 95. northbound. prince william parkway. virginia's state police say 57-year-old wilson powell suffered some sort of medical emergency. he then hit 12 vehicles before coming to a rest on a guardrail. at least five people including the truck driver were taken to the hospital, suffering nonthreatening life injuries. powell was charged for failing to maintain control of his truck. can bad drivers be good for local budgets? d.c. may join the growing number of governance around the region and across the country that are

increasing traffic fees and fines to help balance their budget. the strategy is called bad drivers pay. budget problems go away. if adopted by the d.c. council. mayor fenty's proposed budget would increase parking fees and fines and for 7 moving violations, expand the use of speed and red light cameras and raise the annual residential parking permit fees for city residents. critics say that the proposals undermys traffic safety and threatens tournament. they are predicting more drivers ands are dlents go to traffic court to fight those fines and fees. today maryland governor o'malley sign flood law some of the bills pass bid the general assembly. the three month legislative session ended last nature at midnight. news4's chris gordon reports that attention now turns to the upcoming election. >> reporter: maryland's leaders highlighted efforts to move forward despite difficult economic times. >> our focus, our definition of

progress, all through the seg, has been about job creation. about saving jobs, job retention and about getting lending to our small businesses and protecting homeownership and protecting families. >> reporter: governor o'malley signed 170 bills into law, one of the biggest achievements was cutting the budget without shifting the burden of paying teacher pensions to the counties. >> pentagon fund is just huge. and especially in this economy. and i just don't know how the county comes forward to make any additional contributions. >> reporter: now that this legislative session ended maryland poll particular focuses on the november election. with governor martin o'malley facing a challenge from former governor, bob ehrlich. republicans say maryland still faces a $1.5 billion deficit blending democratic leaders for failing to fix the budget. >> that will the biggest issue for voerts.

how will you deal with this issue? you overspent. you raised my tax necessary 2007. are you going to do it again to me in 2011? >> reporter: democrats feel they have done a good job. >> i think the governor will run strong. i think prince george's county is a critical counsel thank you for him. i think he will do well in prince george's county. we are all going to work with him. we will all be onboard together. >> reporter: first step for governor o'malley is to begin fund-raising now that the legislative session is over. chris gordon, news4. >> stay for five five. a warn being a potential catastrophe at the nuclear security summit. jim vance and doreen gentzler are next with "news4 at 6:00." some supplies officers in prince george's county are being investigated for a beating caught on tape. >> amazing survival story.